HANK AARON - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED - HFSID 158922

Photograph signed: "Hank Aaron" B/w, 8x10. Hall of Famer Hank Aaron (b. 1934) played
for the Braves in Milwaukee (1954-1965) and Atlanta (1966-1974), and for the
Milwaukee Brewers (1975-1976).From 1974 to 2007, he held the record for most career
home runs (755), besting Babe Ruth's 714, but was later edged out by Barry Bonds' 762.
Aaron is synonymous with home runs, but there was much more to “Hammerin' Hank” than
his 755 round-trippers. He also set all-time marks for the most games, at bats, total bases
and RBI's, and his batting average over 23 seasons was .305 - all indications of the
all-around ability of the quiet man from Mobile. The NL MVP in 1957, he appeared in a
record 24 All-Star contests with the Braves (Milwaukee and Atlanta) and Brewers. Ink note in
an unknown hand on verso (no show-through). Otherwise, fine condition.

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Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1982Named NL Most
Valuable Player by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1957)Named NL
Player of the Year by The Sporting News (1956 and 1963)Named outfielder on
The Sporting News Major League All-Star Team (1956 and 1958 to 1959)Named
outfielder on The Sporting News NL All-Star Team (1963, 1965, 1967 and 1969 to
1971)Won NL Gold
Glove as right fielder (1958 to 1960)

"Henry Aaron in the second inning walked and scored.
He's sittin' on 714. Here's the pitch by Downing. Swinging. There's a drive into
left-center field! That ball is gonna be ... outta here! It's gone! It's 715!
There's a new home run champion of all time, and it's Henry Aaron!" - Milo
Hamilton, April 8, 1974

With that swing of the bat, along with the 714 that
preceded it, Hank Aaron not only passed Babe Ruth as Major League Baseball's
career home run leader, but he also made a giant leap in the integration of the
game and the nation. Aaron, an African-American, had broken a record set by the
immortal Ruth, and not just any record, but the all-time major league home run
record, and in doing so moved the game and the nation forward on the journey
started by Jackie Robinson in 1947. By 1974 Aaron's baseball career was within
three years of sunset, but the road he'd travelled to arrive at that spring
evening in Atlanta had hardened and tempered him, perhaps irrevocably, in ways
that only suffering can produce. Aaron finally shrugged off the twin
burdens of expectation and fear that evening, and few have ever stood
taller.

Henry Louis Aaron was born February 5, 1934, in Mobile Alabama, to Herbert
and Estella (Pritchett) Aaron. Among Henry's seven siblings was a brother,
Tommie, who later played in parts of seven different seasons in the major
leagues. For whatever such records are worth, the brothers still hold the record
for most career home runs by a pair of siblings, 768, with the elder Henry
contributing 755 to Tommie's 13. They were also the first siblings to appear in
a League Championship Series as teammates.